News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-02-17

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saws: ''The mountains may de part and the
hills be removed, but my loving kindness
viii never fail you" Shelter-everlasting
shelter-in this dovecOt OF the Gospel.
But this flock of souls that have come into
the Kingdom of God to-day, are like doves
to their windows because they fly home.
The most of the birds have no home. Win
| ter in one CLINE summer in another cline.
This year a nest in one tree; next year nest
| in another tree The golden oriole of Ger
many stays only three months there and
then it IS gone The linnet Of Norway
flies across the sea to get rid of the
wintry blast. The heron, the gross
heak and the goldfinch ure ell migratory.
They have no home. But the pigeons, the
doves spoken of in the text, they have the
| dOveCOt for the summer and for the winter
1t is perpetual home like the warm heart of
Christ, the doyecot of eternal mercy. Oh,
how many have found the mercy and favor
of Christ ell they needed in all weatherS,
bright weather and dark weaf her, winter
weather and summer weather, spring
weather and autumn weather. A
perpetual and loving Christ. What
does the Psalmist say2 I'VE come I'M
der the feathers of the Almighty" Our for
| tunes may drop ten degrees below zero. The
SHOWS of trouble may fall around us, the
| winds of persecution may blow against us,
| the ackals of death may stalk forth at us
| Home, safely home, IN the heart of God,
| nothing can disturb u.s. Nothing can over
| throw Us. The everlasting God is our shell
| ter. The Sheriff may sell us out and our
| comfortable homes may go into the hands of
| strangers; but Christ, our home, is q home
| forever And yet hear people talking as
| though when man became Christian he
| put out on a trackleSs moor, as though he went
| wandering in the lands of a great Sahara.
| No. LAS doves to the Windows
| This great flock of souls that come into the
| Kingdom of God to-day, are like doves to
their windows, because they come in fiocks
| The buzZard, with filthy wing, fitting up
| from the carbon is alone. You look into
hn nd lTlan Iv1a yRnll find n
solitary bird winging by; but the doves
spoken of in the text come in flocks. So
these souls to-day come by scores and hum
straggler trying to catch up
with an army, but a solid column.
| Not a stray drop on tho cheek or the hand
| SO that you are hardly aware whether 1T
| rains or not; but the rush OF an unmlstakable
| shower. Not the raking up of few CLEAN
| ings, but the full sheaves tossed into the
| garner. ''As doves to their windows Some |
of them are young, you have noticed, and
| the first time they use their wings is TO fly |
| into the Kingdom of God Some are |
| old and their wings have been torn of |
| the shot and ruttied of the tempest, |
and they flew far out at sea, and we thought |
they would never come back again, and Jmo |
have dipped their wings in fountains of sin |
and DEATH ami some made very crooked
course they flew along: but they have
changed their course; they have come back
''as doves to their windows" Oh shall not
to my dying hour cease to praise God
for the manifestation of His grace here to-
day. Praise Him, sun and moon and stars.
Praise Him, Church militant on earth.
Praise H m, Church triumphant in Heaven.
Let the Church on earth raise its right hand, |
and let the Church of II -aven lower its right
hand, until they clasp in Joy and Congratua- |
ton and then let thu elders of the church put
the wine of celebration to lips, and let
the cupbearers of Heaven bring from the
vaults of eternity, the Oldest wine prepared
by Him who trOd the winepreSS alone, and
lat worlds at l-paV 1I1hilpa oh /
| am glad so many of the young have come.
Before the time of Robert Raikes there was
no combined effort for the salvation of the
young. People were allowed to go on in their
sin, and after u while were brought ba k,
if they were brought back at all.
There has been a notion in the church that
people must be allowed to their wild
oats and after while thoy will come back
have nJticed that % out of 100 of the people
who SOW wild oats never reap any other
crop; they SOW to the wind and they
reap the whulwind. The church has :
found out that it is easier to keep a train on
the track than to get it on the track when
once it is o I the track. The experienced |
reinsman checks the fiery steed at the first [
jump, for he knows that if it get under full {
swing and its hOof strike fire and it take the
bit in its teeth, thu momentum is ire
sstible Aud SO we rejoice 1t the coming of ;
the young. oh, that Christ to-day would
take all these fl wers of youth and make
them into a garland for His own blessed | ,
DTOW. IN Tile heaviest SnOWStOIIn Ilab L |
ever saw, | went to see dying gl'l in my
parish. Her cheek on the pillow was as
white as the snow on the easement.
Loved ones stood around the couch. They |
trying to hold her Lack in this world.
Father could not give her I'm. Mother could
not give her up; and one nearer and dearer
than father or mother was frantic with grief
as he stood there. l said: Fannie, how Go
you feel to-da'-3' She said: Mr.. Talmage
| feel happy, | feel very happy. ] wish
you would tell all the young folks next
Sunday that religion viii make them
happy" As left the room, allow the sob
biug and the wailin of grief was heard-I |
heard-the calm, Gear, resonant voice of that
dying girl, as she said to me: GOOD night;
we Will meet again on the other side the |
river" On the following Sabbath we gath
cred for her burial and out of the conserya-
tory we brought white flowers and put them
on the casket, and in all that crowded church |
there was only one bright and delighted face; |
chat was the face of Fannie. Religion had
made her happy while she lived, and happy |
when she died, and has made her happy for |
ever. Oh, am so glad the young come to-
day. | have no words to express my emo
ton at the coming of these young men.
Christ Himself died VIII lie yet a young man,
and His sympathies go out toward the young.
Oh, that this regiment for God might be re-
inforce to-d2y by the coming of all these
young men and young women who have not
vet surrendered themselves to the Lord
Jesus
But while this great flock have como into
the dovec t, the largest flock have flown tho
other way. 1t is easy to feed the pigeons,
tne doves. You go out with a handful Of
corn or wheat ami they fly all around you.
They alight OH your shoulder, and your
hands, and your head, and you feed them,
and they stand around you, they are so very
tame. But do you know, my brother,
the Lord has been feeding you with
the finest Of the wheat all these
years. And yet yOu have flown away
from him. You took your clothes from His
wardrobe. You took your bread from His
hand, and yet you have been flying the other
way. " lille these others come into the dove |
cot, you are out i'll the storm. And as soma
morning, after a severe winter tempest, you
have gone out and you have seen dead birds
time come when all those who re- I
Ject His mercy and despise the Gospel will
perish. All the storm must come, the storm
Will come. 1t viii SILVER the masts of pride |
and drive into the white reefs of death tho |
last cargo of sin. The cedars of Lebanon. !
will be split in the hurricane, and the
Islands will be moved out of their
place, and the continents will be
rent asunder, and the two hemispheres will | I
spin like top in the fury of the last gale {
The will beasts of the forest in alright will {
come to the cliffs and leap of in an ava Z
lanche of terror. The dead will come out of
their sepulchres to look at the scene, and all
those who re 'ected Christ must die Know J
ing that that day is coming, would not |
be q cowar! if standing here | :
did not tell you of it. The prob
ability is that many of us will
sleep the last sleep near each other in the 7
gardens of the dead, how would feel if ,
on resurrection morn when / come up at the /
call of my God, | should hear your voice I
saying from an adjoining lot in the last rest
ing place "H on never told me of this: it is h
through your neglect l am unprepared for i
this" Oh cannot steel my nerves for such :
a CONSERVATION. / tel You now, except a
man be born again he cannot see the King :
dom of God. l
How far is it from here to hellY" said '
scofer on horseback one Sunday morning. |
as he dashed past good Christian deacon on :
the way to church. How far is it from :
here to hell" At the ne It turn of the road l
the horse threw the rider, and he was |
dashed instantly to death. He found I
out how far it was to ruin without {
any information from the church deacon
Oh, man on the swift course of death. spee l.
ing on toward tiny doom, do you cry to me i
to day, How far to ruinf' l answer: '
Near, very near
"Perhaps this very day
Thy last accepted time may be:
oh shOuldst thou grieve Him now away, '
Then hope may never beam on thee /
Would that my Lord God would show Won l
your sin and help you to fly from it. and 1
your duty and help you to do it, so that r
when the last great terror shall spread its
two great wings over our world and with I
talons of death shall clutch for thy souI II /
cannot harm thee, for thou art in tho safe b
dovecot OF a SavioF's mercy What does the =